(or markup masochism) I love the output that you can get with LaTeX, but I just can't wrap my head around the syntax. For some things you run a \command just

(or markup masochism) I love the output that you can get with LaTeX, but I just can't wrap my head around the syntax. For some things you run a \command just inline with whatever you're doing (and if you want that command to only apply for a small part, you can surround it in an implicit environment with {\command whatever you were going to type}, for others you create an \environment{and write things inside it}. I guess in general it's weird to me that something like \Large can affect everything that comes after it, it feels vaguely like overuse of global variables in C. Parameters/options to commands and environment directives... I guess sometimes use square brackets and sometimes use curly brackets? I could never figure this out.